Ills of Monopoly
"Critics see Wal-Mart as an anti-union predator whose relentless price-cutting actually hurts the towns where it operates by driving out other traders and imposing such low wages that many employees have to rely on welfare to supplement their income"
- Economist in a article on Walmart

Interesting Quote from Mr. Scott (CEO of Walmart) on Disintermediation.
“Most of what I see is elimination of the middle people,” he says. His favourite example involves a lesson that Wal-Mart gave Asda: the British retailer used to sell Christmas-tree lights at the equivalent of about $21, even though they came from the same factory that produced the ones Wal-Mart sold in America for less than $6. The Asda lights were passing through a string of middlemen. “I really object to that,” says Mr Scott. Watch out, middlemen.


Too theoritical, but kind of OK.
Venture Capital in China: Strategy and Decision Making
http://www.telecomdirectnews.com/do.php/120/9369?4798


Next big thing in Indian Outsourcing according to Gartner - "Infrastructure Management Outsourcing" - Something which i think Wipro Infotech is a leader in India. (EDS worldwide).

More and more impressed with Samsung. The way they have branched out from semiconductors to Mobile Phones/LCD monitors..... while Intel couldn't. (They manufacture GSM sets whereas the local market is CDMA :-). - Similar to Indian IT!!!)